Find the Fittest.
Find the fittest. That’s the quest at the CrossFit™ Games. Competitors excel at functional movements, at plyometrics, and at moving heavy loads far and fast. They can meet any challenge, stand any surprise.
At the CrossFit™ Open, any comer will have the chance to advance to the next level. An intensive contest lasts five weeks, and accepts contestants from around the world.
The top athletes from 17 regions will compete at the Regional Games, which also last five weeks. Again, the best will show their stuff, and move on.
At the 2012 Reebok CrossFit™ Games, on July 15 at the Home Depot center in Carson California, the most fit 100 men and women in the world will make themselves known.
The Test
How are the champions selected? At each level, they are hit with challenges that are a complete surprise. The highly trained athletes are informed of the workout just before they face it, and given the opportunity to shine.
In other years, athletes have carried sandbags, swum competitively, and run hills. They’ve shown their mettle in contests that test strength, stamina, and conditioning, every way it can be tested.
This year’s events will again try the athletes in unexpected ways, testing their spirit, desire, and drive along with their fitness. Some will triumph, and some will come back next year.
The Training
Athletes are graded according to relative performance, assessing how they do against their peers. This system produces the 50 fittest men and 50 fittest women on earth. It’s a thrill to watch, and even more exciting to compete in. That’s why CrossFit™ is constantly growing, expanding its athletes’ horizons and its screaming audience every year.
To train for such a contest, elite athletes hone their skills in hard fast workouts that challenge every fiber. Workouts are designed to increase strength, stamina, and flexibility. The athletes power lift, run, jump, carry and hold. Agility, coordination, and accuracy, all are honed.
As a contestant, you are motivated by the drive to be the best. You put it all in your workout, holding nothing back. Sportsmith fitness equipment supports your drive to win.
The Equipment You Need
Are you ready for the WOD? Improve your Workout of the Day ranking with top-flight equipment from SportSmithFitness.com. No fads, no frills, just the right equipment at the right price.
Sportsmith has everything you need to train and compete. The staff is knowledgeable, because they’re competitors themselves. It’s easy to order online, and delivery is fast and reliable.
SPORTSMITH™ offers Olympic weightlifting bars and accessories to get your muscle mass where you want it to be, as well as a variety of GHD (glute and hamstring machines) and squat racks. It offers gymnastics equipment and conditioning equipment too. You’ll also find a huge selection of fitness machine parts.
Look at SportSmithFitness.com, and check out the CrossFit® packages. These are suited to the intensive training needs of athletes who mean to excel. Affiliate packages are also available, with value-priced equipment packages for five or ten members.
The equipment you choose should support your training to the highest possible degree. Meet and exceed your fitness goals with equipment from SPORTSMITH™.
Seasonal Flu is on the Rise Current Trends for the 2012 Flu Season
People who care about fitness should care about influenza. Seasonal flu is a serious problem every Winter, and the current trends for the 2012 flu season show influenza on the rise. It can spread quickly anywhere a crowd gathers.
Even a light case of the flu can make life miserable for more than a week, spoiling work, workouts, and play. Yet it is possible to fight the spread of flu.
Protect your members from:
•Flu complications
•Flu downtime
•Lasting lethargy and sub-par performance
Health clubs and fitness centers are especially vulnerable to the flu, because the members all share the same equipment, and often everyone grabs it in the same place. Nobody wants to take the time to worry about germs, but they appear each flu season, and a swipe with a personal terrycloth towel will not wipe them away
The Problem
Germs spread easily where people spend time close together, and people can spread the flu and many other illnesses before they even feel sick. As the CDC says, “Most healthy adults may be able to infect others beginning 1 day before symptoms develop and up to 5 to 7 days after becoming sick.” Flu virus survives on surfaces too, according to the United States Centers for Disease Control. Yet a few simple precautions will keep your gym from being “Where I got the flu.”
How do you fight influenza? Fitness helps people stay well, but so does hygiene. Providing wipes and towelettes shows athletes that you are looking after their health and safety, and protecting everyone from a disease that can spread like wildfire. Clean and sanitize all the surfaces your athletes touch, to look out for the members of your fitness facility.
The Solution
The three sanitation concerns for fitness facilities are exposed skin, hard surfaces, and soft surfaces. Sportsmith provides solutions for all three.
1. Anti-Bacterial wipes contain a gentle effective sanitizer especially formulated for use on the body. It smells effective but not strong, and dries quickly, leaving skin feeling fresh. Making wipes available is one easy way to prevent the spread of influenza and other infections among your members:
• Use on hands, arms and legs, wherever you touch equipment
• Safe and effective on facial skin
2. Disinfecting towelettes clean hard surfaces. They kill viruses, fungus and bacteria, including staph. This product is gentle enough to use without gloves, yet highly effective. Use on:
• Metal
• Plastics
• Laminates
• Rubber
• Plexiglass
3. Deodorizing wipes kill germs, including odor-causing germs and mildew, on soft parts of fitness equipment like benches and handles. Reassure your members that every surface they touch is clean and safe.
• Rubber
• Metal
• Vinyl
• Almost all fitness equipment surfaces
Flu complications can include pneumonia, meningitis, and encephalitis. These are all rare. However, downtime from the flu is common. Influenza takes its victims out of action for up to ten days, and sometimes longer.
Even when someone gets over the flu, they may still not feel completely back to normal. It can take months before an athlete functions at peak again. Influenza and other viruses can really put a dent in performance.
Protect your members from the flu and many other contagious diseases, and keep your facility sparkling. Take care of your members, with economical body wipes, towelettes, and cleaning wipes from Sportsmith. Your members will know you care.
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All of you Indoor Cycling Needs in One Place!!
Very recently, SPORTSMITH launched a new website solely dedicated to indoor cycling. You can rest assured that we carry all the parts and accessories you will need for your stationary indoor cycle! We stock all of the most popular brands, such as Schwinn and LeMond, and our parts are competitively priced. Easy browsing means you won’t have to spend as much time looking for what you want, and as always, we offer quick and user-friendly checkout, and multiple delivery options. What are you waiting for? Go visit indoorcyclingparts.com today!
Fight Gone Bad 6
Fights happen, whether professionally in the ring, or unexpectedly on the street. B.J. Penn knows fighting. He’s fought in the UFC for over a decade, and only the second man in UFC history to hold titles in two different weight classes. He wanted a workout that was designed to emulate the raw energy and physical exertion that went into a typical UFC fight. When he was done, he was asked about the workout, and said it was like a “Fight Gone Bad”.
The first Fight Gone Bad competition was held in 2006. It isn’t so much a competition, however, as a fundraiser. That money goes to several organizations, most of which are dedicated to helping our wounded troops and their families. FBG6 is a fundraiser to help wounded US troops that have put their lives on the line for us.
The rules are pretty simple. You spend a total of 17 minutes doing some of the most brutal, intense exercises imaginable. Participants are awarded points based on how many “reps” they perform. There are 5 stations set up, and you spend one minute at each station. After all 5 are done, you rest for one minute, then repeat twice more. The stations each have a drastically different type of exercise, so every part of your body will be working overtime. The workout stations are:
- The Wall-Ball (10f. target)
- The Sumo Dead Lift high-pull
- The Box Jump
- The Push-Press
- The Rowing Machine
After the points are tallied, a specific amount of money is donated to the aforementioned charities. CrossFit has been associated with FGB since its inception, and continues to support this noble cause. SPORTSMITHä has it’s own CrossFit affiliated gym built right into our warehouse, and we are proud to be associated with FGB this year and to help support our wounded and fallen heroes.
If you would like to participate in this years Fight Gone Bad 6, then here’s what you need to do. Simply register at your local CrossFit affiliate before Wednesday, September 14th, 2011, or you can register online here.
And that’s it! The competition will take place on September 17th, 2011. Prizes will be awarded for those raising specific amounts of money, and these prizes could even include an all-expense paid trip to the CrossFit games in 2012! So, what are you waiting for? Get out there and FIGHT!
Join our Affiliate Program!!!
We at SPORTSMITH have an exciting new announcement to make! Recently we have begun our Affiliate Program. What is this, you ask? Well, simply put, it’s an easy way for YOU to make money!
First off, you’ll need to sign up. Simply go to this link, and follow the instructions. Easy! Now, you can start raking in cash with almost no effort on your part! It really is that easy.
Here’s how it works. When you sign up with our Affiliate Program, SPORTSMITH will provide you with either a banner, button, or text link to place on your own website. This will direct anyone who clicks on it to our site. If that person purchases the item (or items) you are promoting, then you will either receive a percentage of the sale (commission), or a bounty (a fixed amount) of the sale. You do absolutely NOTHING except for placing the links on your site.
Not only will you be making money, you’ll be supporting one of the fastest growing industries in the world today. Fitness equipment is exploding in popularity, and more new and innovative products hit the market every month. Our business is booming, and you can get in on some of that action by simply displaying a simple item on your website (or sites). So, click the above link and start making money the easy way!
FREE Shipping Fridays!!!
What is it? Just what it suggests. At Sportsmith, we get it. So we are offering Free shipping on 7 of our most popular products every Friday. That’s right, every Friday 7 new products to choose from. So follow the link below to sign up for Free Shipping Fridays.
Sign me up for Free shipping Fridays. Click here
Fitness Equipment Repair Forum
Sportsmith now has a new online forum! That's right, the standard for posting your thoughts, ideas, and opinions is now one of the many online options that SPORTSMITH gives you. Powered by vbulletin, one of the largest hosts of forums on the whole of the web, our forums are a place where our customers and clients can gather and express themselves! Though the forums have just recently gotten up and running, there are already plenty of informative threads available for you to peruse. We have a full moderator and admin staff to help you with anything you might need, as well. We plan on writing many new threads to keep you informed of new happenings at SPORTSMITH, as well as to inform you on various technical matters concerning your exercise equipment. Head on over to forums.sportsmith.net to register your account and get posting today!
Sportsmith supports community and the forum is a place where anyone can come share their information about the fitness industry. This is a great place to ask questions and share your thoughts.
Sportsmith Digital Catalog 62
Sportsmith is proud to announce that our Catalog 62 is now available in digital format. Interactive Catalog 62 is one of many in the new online digital format to better serve our customers and take advantage of the growing trend towards digital and online service. Features include:
- Shop the catalog anywhere, anytime.
- View instructional videos.
- One click access to parts and products.
- Share easily
- Eco-friendly
Our digital catalog comes in high-quality Flash format, and you will need Adobe Flash Player 10, which is available for free here. It is incredibly easy to navigate pages and zoom into areas that interest you. It also features a handy search function, so you can go directly to the pages you want with a simple click of the mouse.
Sportsmith is proud to bring our customers the easiest and most convenient ways to place orders with us. One more way to better communicate with the industry we serve. We’re preparing all sorts of new and exciting ways to make your shopping and ordering easier in the near future as well!
To view the digital version of Catalog 62, click here.
Digital Catalog!!
Sportsmith is proud to announce that our Catalog 61 is now available in digital format. Catalog 61 is the first of many in the new online digital format to better serve our customers and take advantage of the growing trend towards digital and online service.
Our digital catalog comes in high-quality Flash format, and you will need Adobe Flash Player 10, which is available for free here. It is incredibly easy to navigate pages and zoom into areas that interest you. It also features a handy search function, so you can go directly to the pages you want with a simple click of the mouse.
Sportsmith is proud to bring our customers the easiest and most convenient ways to place orders with us. One more way to better communicate with the industry we serve. We’re preparing all sorts of new and exciting ways to make your shopping and ordering easier in the near future as well!
To view the digital version of Catalog 61, click here.
SPORTSMITH INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS
Recently, SPORTSMITH added a new feature to it’s website. We now host a variety of instructional videos. Simply click on the Support tab on the main page of our website, then click on the boldface Videos link to be taken there. This is a new and exciting feature of our website, and not only do we currently host over fifty different videos, we plan on adding many more in the months to come!
Most of these videos are produced in-house at SPORTSMITH and are created by our talented team of technicians to insure that the information that is given to you is correct and easy to follow. Each video that is hosted on our site also has a set of written instructions directly below the video player so that you can verify that you’re following the instructions correctly.
Currently the videos are broken down into several different sets. These sets cover routine maintenance, parts installation and removal for some of the most popular pieces of fitness equipment on the market today. As of this writing, there are four distinct sets, and they are available for viewing any time of day. Of course, the actual number of videos will be ever changing, so be sure to check out the SPORTSMITH website for updates.
6 videos covering LifeFitness treadmill maintenance, including instructions on how to change the deck and running belt.
10 videos covering various aspects of Schwinn products.
30 videos on many Stairmaster products. These videos cover a range of maintenance and technical aspects for the Stairmaster line.
7 videos detailing maintenance techniques on the Star Trac line of treadmills.
There are also several miscellaneous videos on subjects ranging from the specifics of testing a potentiometer to a demonstration of the anti-burst feature of SPORTSMITH brand stability balls. Please be sure to visit our website and check out these informative videos. We also have a Youtube page where you can also watch some of these videos on the Sportsmith Channel. We at SPORTSMITH pride ourselves on not only providing the best in customer service and affordability to our customers, but also a full range of technical support. If you have any questions about what you’ve seen in any of our videos, please feel free to call our knowledgeable tech support staff.
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